Why “XSLT” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Valid point. And as someone who used XSLT in the browser before 2k heavily it was clear, that this is not the way the web will go. To care not only browser specific rendering an…
by qrios · Nov 5, 2026
By addinng .json you trigger a different render mode on the server. With in-browser XSLT the server does not need to support different rendering requirements.
by qrios · Nov 5, 2026
.. race to the bottom. "more competition" for.. ONE thing Google can do, nothing else (ads engine - not document browser). Want to make browsers easier ? - removing JavaSript an…
by t23414321 · Nov 5, 2026
There are too many web standards that do not need to be built-in. Many of them can be implemented using JS or WASM library, and this would also reduce fingerprinting possibiliti…
by codedokode · Nov 5, 2026
I certainly used XSLT for report generation. Have to say though, it was slow and painful to use. For what we needed it would really have been faster - both to develop and certai…
by MattPalmer1086 · Nov 5, 2026
XML and XSLT are great, poor is execution and understanding by the "industry", "failed experiment" mean used wrong, not for it's purpose. Used well (it's another dimension), it'…
by t23414321 · Nov 5, 2026
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Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT, also XSL(T) or XSL-T), is a domain-specific declarative programming language that transforms text into text. Read more on Wikipedia